take a look back at some of the biggest maritime disasters around the world in modern history. On Jan. 13, 2012, the Costa Concordia, an Italian cruise ship ran aground and overturned. The vessel ...

A century and a half later, the sinking of the S.S. Pacific remains one of the deadliest maritime disasters in the region’s history Joel Sams View of the S.S. Pacific anchored near Fort Tongass ...

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The correspondence provides a crucial glimpse into the immediate response to one of history's most infamous maritime wrecks.

All crew and passengers were rescued before the ship sank. April 1 - White Star Line's "Atlantic" is wrecked off the coast of Halifax after entering rough seas. More than half of its 900 occupants ...

In February 2013, an engine room fire led to a power loss on the Carnival Triumph, stranding the ship in the Gulf of Mexico. It took five days to tow the enormous vessel back to port, and its ...

Cruise ship captain Wendy Williams rates eight cruise ship disasters in movies and television shows for realism. Williams breaks down how cruise ships deal with iceberg strikes, rogue waves ...

On this day in 1907, the steamship Larchmont collided with the coal schooner Harry Knowlton in the worst maritime disaster in ...

The Iolaire disaster is one of the most tragic stories in the history of the Western ... This is the worst maritime disaster in UK waters in peacetime since SS Norge off Rockall in 1904, and ...

This story appears in the November/December 2016 issue of National Geographic History magazine ... forcing whaling ships to head to more distant waters, first plundering the rich pickings ...

Harriet Strahl, a Ph.D. student in the Durham University history department, has shed new light on the emotional and societal repercussions of the 1120 White Ship disaster in an article published ...